Judge — January 19, 1889 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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236 HUM OF THE COURT. FATAL MISTAKES in drugs—The employment of incompetent clerks. THE FROST is so severe that there is great appre~ hension regarding the ice crop as well as the peach crop. NOW. THAT his oficial is ended, Abram S. Hewitt will probably say afew amiable words, and then kick himself for having done s NEARLY 2,000 Chicago girls graduated from a cooking school in 1888; but they will probably lay the deaths soon to ensue to an epidem ENERAL HARRISON has had forty-four boy babies named after him, and all the girl babies are weep- ing violently because they can't be honored in the same way, HEY SAY that no Scot- tish boy uses profane words. Perhaps those little Scots get their relief by squeezing thistles in their wee there is the rist up Town ™ Qa? claims to have the last natural tooth that George Washington wore in his upper jaw; but we still insist that the rest of the country's papa is buried at Mount Vernon. AYAN HOWMAN wants to buy the bones of Columbus from the San Domingo government and exhibit them through this country. The spectacle would be impressive; and at the same time there isso much similarity in bones that it would be necessary to exhibit the trade-mark on each of Christopher's in order to convince a not always confiding public, for years.” ONE MORE FROM CHICAGO, Mr. CaLumet—" What clergyman would you like to have officiate at our wedding, Mks. Lakek—"*Ob, Doctor De Tiegh, by all means! He's done all sny marrying ‘OMEN are better diplo- matists than men, be- cause men overlook the trifles of which the best diplomacy is made. VERY BABE born to a cabinet officer in Wash- ington has been a girl. That is wisdom, because girls never look for office and are there- fore never going to be dis- appointed. WHEN Lady Colin Camp- bell visited the Ameri- can duchess of Marlborough the latter was so pleased that she went out and wept. The duke wept too, but not the same kind of tear. THE BUSTLE will be used as long as there are wo- men to wear it. Mrs, Harri- son may Lucy-Hayes the in- coming administration if she chooses, but she had better let the bustle alone. HE QUEEN has di ed her corset-lacer. The cause is not given, but prob- ably the lady didn’t have the necessary strength. A corset- lacer for an aged queen can- not be too able-bodied. THE TROUBLE with wo- men, according to the Somerville Journal, is that they love only babies, bon- nets and caramels, The ex- perience that invites that statement is such that we expect to hear of the suicide of the editor of the Somerville Journal any day this week. WHITTIER is burning his private letters. ‘There is probably not an unkind one in the large accumulation; but that which is written for one pair of eyes is vastly inappropriate for perusal by the general public, and great men do but their simple duty in burning it—almost as much as the writers would if they had burned it before it was written, SPEEDY RETRIBUTION. ANNOYER OF sHOP-GIRLS—"' Ab, there!” THe Parror—" Stay there!” comicbooks.com